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| <H3>SCENE I. Messina. POMPEY's house.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in warlike manner</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>POMPEY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>If the great gods be just, they shall assist</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>The deeds of justest men.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>MENECRATES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Know, worthy Pompey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>That what they do delay, they not deny.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>POMPEY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>The thing we sue for.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>MENECRATES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>We, ignorant of ourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Deny us for our good; so find we profit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>By losing of our prayers.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>POMPEY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>I shall do well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>The people love me, and the sea is mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Nor either cares for him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>MENAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=20>Caesar and Lepidus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>POMPEY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=22>Where have you this? 'tis false.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>MENAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>From Silvius, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>POMPEY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=24>He dreams: I know they are in Rome together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Even till a Lethe'd dulness!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter VARRIUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=33>How now, Varrius!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>VARRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=34>This is most certain that I shall deliver:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Mark Antony is every hour in Rome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>A space for further travel.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>POMPEY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>I could have given less matter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>A better ear. Menas, I did not think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>For such a petty war: his soldiership</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Is twice the other twain: but let us rear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>The higher our opinion, that our stirring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>MENAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=46>I cannot hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Caesar and Antony shall well greet together:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>His brother warr'd upon him; although, I think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Not moved by Antony.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>POMPEY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=51>I know not, Menas,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>How lesser enmities may give way to greater.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Were't not that we stand up against them all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>'Twere pregnant they should square between</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>themselves;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>For they have entertained cause enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>To draw their swords: but how the fear of us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>May cement their divisions and bind up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>The petty difference, we yet not know.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>Come, Menas.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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